Activities of Pablo IGLESIAS related to 2015/2112(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Towards a new international climate agreement in Paris (A8-0275/2015 - Gilles Pargneaux) ES
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Towards a new international climate agreement in Paris
Amendments (9)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Acknowledges the importance of climatthe fight against climate change; calls on the European External Action Service (EEAS) to prioritise diplomacy on climate policy goals in order to build support for a strong, fair and comprehensive agreementn ambitious, transparent and legally binding agreement in keeping with scientific data on the climate, international human rights obligations and the principles of the UN Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), with particular regard to the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities; stresses the importance of the EU as a key player in climate diplomacy and emphasises the need to speak with one voicefor the Member States jointly to coordinate their objectives and negotiating strategies; calls on the Member States to coordinate their positions in this regard with those of the EU; underlines that the EU and the Member States have an enormous foreign policy capacity and must mobilise this network based on political will in order to secure the objectives; welcomes, in this context, the 45 national contributions on the fight against climate change already announced by COP21, and invites those states that have not yet done so to contribute promptly before the summit; calls for a fair agreement under which those countries that have polluted most bear differentiated climate responsibility, since they should shoulder more of the financial commitments, and calls on the parties involved in environmental aspects of the ongoing Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations to take into account the Paris Conference conclusionsabandon this agreement that has been negotiated against the people and to the detriment of the climate;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points to the urgent resolution adopted on 5 June 2015 by the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (entitled ‘The Europe-Latin America position on issues related to climate and climate change in the context of the Summit of 2015 in Paris (COP 21)’), which stresses that ‘the level of international collective effort is still well below what is required to achieve a below 2 degree outcome’ and therefore calls for strong guarantees with a view to reaching an agreement by including a precise roadmap and effective funding for the Green Climate Fund;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Urges all the parties to promote scientific and technological cooperation and improve their resource allocation, and therefore invites them to follow the recommendations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP);
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that climate diplomacy should be part of the comprehensive approach to the EU’s external action, treating the climate as a global common good that belongs to everyone and must be protected by everyone; calls for a debate on a forward-looking strategy at EU level to address the strategic and political consequences for sectors of the economy, administrations and citizens, allowing the EU to respond to and prepare for climate- induced geopolitical instability and paying particular attention to cooperation with countries most afflicted by the impacts of climate change, bearing in mind the impacts that the climate will have on populations, in particular the most vulnerable populations; urges Western countries therefore to help other countries in their process of adapting to climate change, providing financial assistance for national adaptation programmes of action (NAPA);
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Regrets that the developed countries refused to strengthen their objectives at the most recent climate summit in Lima in December 2014, while the latest IPCC reports have appealed for efforts to be speeded up and greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced; regrets that, by signing an agreement outside the UN framework shortly before the Lima Summit, China and the United States have opened up a significant breach in the legally binding climate commitments; stresses the need to reach a binding agreement with the world’s two biggest greenhouse gas emitters; emphasizes that the idea that the agreements are ‘voluntary’ is jeopardising the possibility of reaching a legally binding agreement among the parties;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Condemns the fact that multinationals are lobbying with the aim of deriving economic gain from the issue of climate change and pushing through false green solutions: carbon trading, pollution offsets, REDD, CO2 capture and storage; COP21 sponsorship;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. WelcomNotes the action plan for climate diplomacy, which states that the EEAS, the Commission and the Member States must together implement a strategic, coherent and cohesive climate diplomacy plan throughout 2015 and in subsequent periods and calls for the European Parliament to be actively involved in that plan; stresses that the Foreign Affairs Council conclusions of July 2011 and June 2013 endorsed the joint EEAS and Commission non-papers, which identified three strands of action for climate diplomacy, and that the action plan must form an integral part of this strategy;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, in close cooperation with the Member States, to develop strategic priorities for the external climate and climate change policy enshrined in the general foreign policy objectives and to ensure that the EU’s delegations increase their focus on climate monitoring issues, and requests that all EU policies and actions should take climate change policy into account; calls on the EU to cooperate more closely on climate issues with neighbours and candidate countries.
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, in close cooperation with the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, to ensure that differences as regards the effects of climate change in countries in the north and south of Europe are taken into account; notes that countries in the south of Europe are most vulnerable and will be most affected by rising temperatures, an increase in extreme weather events, heatwaves, droughts and more irregular rainfall; calls, therefore, for specific studies and financial resources with a view to drawing up climate adaptation plans, particularly in the most vulnerable areas such as coastlines;